About

Welcome to the Natural Parents Network, a community of natural-minded parents and parents-to-be where you will be informed, empowered, and inspired. NPN would not be possible without the generous help of our volunteers. Please take a moment to get to know our Co-founders, Editors and Managers, Natural Parents Network Sponsorship Team, Authors, Social Media and Networking Managers and the other volunteers who keep NPN running smoothly.

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Natural Parents Network Co-founders

Dionna Ford, Author of Code Name: Mama

Dionna is a lawyer turned work at home mama of two amazing kids, Kieran and Ailia. You can normally find Dionna over at Code Name: Mama where she shares information, resources, and her thoughts on natural parenting and life with little ones. She is passionate about issues regarding attachment parenting, breastfeeding (particularly breastfeeding beyond infancy), RIC, and gentle discipline. Dionna also co-founded NursingFreedom.org (a site dedicated to normalizing breastfeeding), is a regular contributor on API Speaks (the blog sponsored by Attachment Parenting International), and co-hosts the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting.

Lauren Wayne, Author of Hobo Mama

Lauren works and writes at home with her husband, Crackerdog Sam, their preschool son, Mikko, and hobo baby Alrik. At Hobo Mama, Lauren blogs about natural and attachment parenting, breastfeeding, babywearing, cloth diapering, green living, and more. Lauren offers reviews and giveaways of natural parenting products at Hobo Mama Reviews and gives a behind-the scenes look at blogging and novel writing at LaurenWayne.com. Lauren co-hosts the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting and has been featured on Eco Baby Steps, Knickernappies, NursingFreedom.org, Catapult Magazine, and BlogHer.

Natural Parents Network Editors and Managers

Abbie Walston, Newsletter Manager and Author of Farmer’s Daughter

Abbie is a breastfeeding, cosleeping, attached working mother to Joshua and David, wife to Ed, an environmentalist, teacher, and blogger. She was raised on her family’s 300-year-old farm in Connecticut, where she learned to love animals and nature. In her science classroom, she focuses on place-based, experiential learning. She supports sustainable living, shops from local farms, cooks from scratch, gardens, reads and writes in her spare time, and blogs about it at Farmer’s Daughter.

Cynthia, Ask the Mentor Editor and Author of The Hippie Housewife

Cynthia is the mother of three delightful children who daily show her the beauty in each moment. Previously an accountant, she now stays at home with her children and teaches an online course on the side. She likes to knit and sew in her “spare time.” She enjoys nurturing her children’s love of learning as they enter into their official homeschooling years. She is passionate about gentle discipline, attachment parenting, and intentional living. Cynthia writes about her life as a Jesus-follower and her journey towards a more intentional life at The Hippie Housewife.

Jennifer Andersen, NPN Awards Program Manager and Author of Our Muddy Boots
Jennifer Andersen had a nursery prepared for her first born. She and her husband knew that their baby would sleep in it from his first night home. Then Owen was born- and everything changed. Now Jennifer is passionate about learning as much as she can about all aspects of Attachment Parenting, breastfeeding and connecting more deeply with her children. She founded Our Muddy Boots to share her own observations and it has turned into a community of parents learning to trust themselves and their children. Doing things differently is new for Jennifer and her husband, but they are getting comfortable quickly. When she isn’t hanging out with other like minded parents on the inter webz, you can find her playing with her kids and her camera- preferably (and most always) by the ocean.

Jennifer, Cooking Naturally Editor, Volunteer Recognition Manager and Author of Hybrid Rasta Mama

Jennifer is a former government recruiter turned stay-at-home mama to a precious daughter (Tiny) brought earthside in March 2009. She is passionate about conscious, gentle parenting, natural health and wellness, holistic healing, real foods, coconut oil, and a Waldorf approach to education. Jennifer believes that it is extremely important for mothers to have a strong network of support and to that end has been active both in her local support networks as well as online support networks.

Momma Jorje, Wordless Wednesday Editor and Author of Momma Jorje

Jorje is a slightly crunchy momma (and wife!) sliding down the slippery slope to full-on hippydom. She stays busy with 3 children and is passionate about breastfeeding, co-sleeping, baby signing, elimination communication, and general attachment parenting. Jorje blogs at Momma Jorje where she also advocates for Down Syndrome Awareness. Jorje dreams of hitting the road full time to unschool with her family, recently started her own dreadlock journey, and is personally interested in tarantulas, macro photography and minimalism.

Kat, Special Projects Manager and Author of Loving {Almost} Every Moment

Kat is and loves many things. Mostly she loves her husband and being a mommy to her three kiddos. Her background in Psychology and Health Promotion has her always asking questions and wondering what she can do to make her kiddos’ world a better, healthier place. During her “free” time she works as a Life Coach, focusing on Parent Coaching, and and is pursuing her Birth Doula certification. On the side she enjoys writing, photography, reading, yoga and chatting about anything and everything. You can find her blogging at Loving {Almost} Every Moment, where she writes mostly about life with kiddos and all that comes along the parenting journey!

Kym, Newsletter Manager and Author of Our Crazy Corner of the World

Kym is a 27 year old God-loving SAHM to a two-year-old boy, a patriotic military wife, and a doula in training living deep in the heart of Texas. She graduated from college with a degree in History Education/Religious Studies and three weeks later gave birth to her wonderful son. Her passions lie in homemaking, natural birth, breastfeeding, gentle/natural parenting, cloth diapers, co-sleeping, and living a healthy lifestyle. When she’s not chasing her toddler (or being chased by him), she blogs about life at Our Crazy Corner of the World. In her spare time (ha!), she loves cooking, gardening, spending time with her husband at the shooting range or hiking, reading or watching Lord of the Rings (over and over), running and swimming.

Shannon R., Special Projects Manager and Author of The Artful Mama

Shannon is an artist, high school art teacher, field hockey coach, wife, and mother to a mischievous little boy. After the birth of her son, she experienced difficulty breastfeeding, and under some poor advice, started expressing her milk instead. She almost had to give up when after two months her supply dropped and she could no longer express enough milk. She was finally introduced to kangaroo care by a friend; after that excellent experiences she dove head long into attachment parenting theory and has not looked back. In between work, pumping, breastfeeding, changing cloth diapers and neglecting housework, she finds time for a little self-therapy by writing her blog.

Natural Parents Network Sponsorship Team

Christine Powell, Sponsorship Manager and Author of African Babies Don’t Cry

Christine Powell is a teacher turned stay-at-home mom to her beautiful son. She lives in South Africa and does all she can to promote extended breastfeeding in a community that has started to view this age old custom as “lower class.” She is passionate about bringing her son up as naturally as possible, and she believes that breastfeeding and co-sleeping have helped make him into the bubbly, confident and energetic little boy he is. Christine has a background in natural nutrition and is a committed vegetarian (pescatarian) believing strongly in the wise words “we are what we eat.” In her spare time she enjoys taking her son for long walks, reading and writing.

Julia Mangan, Sponsorship Manager and Author of A Little Bit of All of It

Julia worked in Advertising and Marketing before her daughter came along but now enjoys staying home with her 3-year-old daughter and infant son. She blogs at A Little Bit of All of It about those things she is passionate about like cloth diapering, breastfeeding (past infancy), bedsharing/cosleeping, baby-led solids, natural childbirth, attachment parenting, natural living, Christianity, miscarriage awareness and babywearing.

Mb (Marybeth): Sponsorship Manager

Mb is a happy, hippie, sew at home rainbow mama living in Colorado with her partner, their dog, and their one sweet four year old whirlychild who knocks her stripy, mismatched, knee-high, vintage star-speckled socks off every day. Mb loves making colorful things, playing in the great outdoors, and she is looking forward to tweeting with you all!

Amanda, Giveaway Outreach and Author of Let’s Take the Metro

Amanda is the mother of two girls born 15 months apart and is currently caring for them full-time. Her two deepest, non-human loves are psychology and writing. Passions include gardening, cooking, baking, learning, reading, sewing, breastfeeding, baby wearing, being green, nutrition, homeopathy, alternative medicine, and constantly striving to be a better parent. She spends most of her day not watching TV and tries to get her children outside as much as possible. She hopes to one day have a green house AND a root cellar.

Natural Parents Network Authors

Amy Phoenix, Author of Presence Parenting

Amy is a gentle yet direct momma of five, meditation facilitator, and parent educator dedicated to liberating anything that gets in the way of experiencing the peace of the present. Amy provides resources for relaxing into parenting and life at Presence Parenting.

Amy Willa, Author of Toddler In Tow
Amy is a Coast Guard wife and full-time mother to two enthusiastic and lovely children, Abbey (3) and Joe (5 months). She writes at Toddler In Tow about navigating an authentic parenting, natural living, military family journey with as much grace as she can manage. She is particularly interested in learning and writing about compassion, cooperation, and responsibility as they relate to mindful living and parenting, and hopes that through documenting and exploring her experiences, she can contribute to the nurture of a peaceful and responsible generation of children. In addition to mothering and blogging, Amy enjoys sewing cloth diapers, knitting, and dedicating herself to baby-wearing, mom-to-mom breastfeeding support, and the study of human lactation and sociology. She has been featured on Code Name: Mama, ACU’s, Stiletto Shoes, and Pretty Pink Tutus, and Milk Mamas Speak, and loves being a part of the wonderful Natural Parenting community!

Ariadne Brill, Author of Positive Parenting Connection

Ariadne is a happy and busy mama to three children. She practices peaceful, playful, responsive parenting and is passionate about all things parenting and chocolate. Ariadne has a B.S. in Communication, is a certified Positive Discipline Parenting Educator, and has completed several graduate courses in Psychology and Family Counseling. To avoid doing laundry Ariadne created the Positive Parenting Connection, a website dedicated to collecting and sharing resources, ideas, tips and helpful information with other parents that are striving to have connected, peaceful relationships with their children. Ariadne and her family currently live in Switzerland on top of a beautiful mountain with their two spunky dogs and one blue fish.

Ashley Allman, Author of Ash & Alys Babes

Ashley Allman is a Seattle-based writer and co-founder of online natural products boutique, Ash & Alys Babes. She spends most of her time playing house with her two spirited sons, husband and two dogs, all of whom she uses for inspiration in every aspect of life. Ashley is committed to raising her children green and focuses a great deal of energy on feeding her children a healthy diet and raising them to be responsible and thankful stewards of this beautiful Creation. Ashley has a B.A. in Journalism, has written for newspapers and magazines and has worked in public relations for 10 years.

Charise Rohm Nulsen, Author of I Thought I Knew Mama

Charise is the proud wife and mother to a husband and baby that inspire her on a daily basis. A former professional, first in the magazine industry and then as a special education English teacher, Charise is now a stay at home mama to her son. She feels so fortunate to currently be living her dream of being both a mama and a writer. Charise does her very best to be a natural, attached parent, and enjoys chronicling her experiences in doing so on her blog. When Charise is not blogging, she loves to read, hike, snowboard, travel, dance, and do pretty much anything with the two loves of her life.

Destany Fenton, Author of They Are All of Me
Destany is an artist who works from home while raising her four kids, who range in age from teens to littles. A self proclaimed cheapskate and “maker-queen,” her do-it-yourself attitude compels her to promote self-education, frugality, and taking responsibility for our global community. She is attentive to her children and works to foster and maintain a deep connection with each one, while finding harmony within herself and remembering to take time for her husband. When she is not painting, cooking, gardening, knitting or playing with her kids – even the big ones, she is blogging about her life at They Are All of Me, where she shares crafts, recipes, and crazy mama mishaps that are bound to crop up when living with pets, teenagers and little ones.

Emily Bartnikowski, Author of Embrita Blogging

Emily spends more time playing with her son Sebastian than she does working on her in-progress novel, but since children are only small once, she’s willing to let everything else slide. An almost-native of Texas, she now lives in Northern California – a relocation instigated by her husband’s career. She spends her free time rotating laundry and being generally five steps behind on the rest of the chores. When she gets even more free time she bakes, climbs rocks, daydreams about interior design (a career she put on hold when they moved), takes dozens of pictures of whatever strikes her fancy, blogs at Embrita Blogging and Cool Kids Reading, researches homeschooling and mindful parenting, and writes about offing (made-up) people.

Gretchen, Author of That Mama Gretchen

Gretchen is first and foremost a stay-at-home wife and mama – her dream come true after leaving a role in corporate sales and marketing. In her spare time Gretchen is growing her passion for writing by accepting freelance assignments while acting as a modern day Girl Friday for a local small business. Gretchen and her husband, Dominic, are passionate about raising a Christian family, financial freedom, attachment parenting, and healthy living. She is learning, loving, and laughing through motherhood while juggling nap times, homemaking, work and the occasional craft project. She blogs about it all at That Mama Gretchen.

Jenn Collins, Author of Monkey Butt Junction

Jenn is the proud mom of a toddler named Jack. She turned to natural parenting as a way to develop a deep bond with her son despite working long hours outside the home. Her interest in natural parenting has led her to embrace a greener lifestyle for herself and her family. Her husband Dan is a stay at home dad, and together they delight in sharing their love of the outdoors with their son through biking, hiking, running, camping, gardening and canoeing.

Jennifer, Author of Hybrid Rasta Mama (See bio under Editors)

Jessika Bailey, Author of Job Description: Mommy

Jessika moved from the city to a cabin in the mountains 6 years ago, after marrying a lifelong friend, and is now a stay at home mom of two toddlers, 13 months apart, and a teenager. A former massage therapy student, tv station manager, bartender and booking agent, who traded it all (willingly) for motherhood. She is passionate about (tandem) breastfeeding, natural and attachment parenting, holistic health practices, healthy eating, nature and learning to live more simply & sustainably. Online you can find her at Job Description: Mommy, where she writes of the aforementioned as well as her adventures in motherhood, sharing recipes, arts & crafts, and doing natural product reviews and giveaways.

Juliet Kemp, Author of Twisting Vines

Juliet Kemp lives in London, UK, with her partners, baby Leon, and dog Sidney. She balances parenting and working from home as a freelance writer, with gardening, crafting, and a great many other things that catch her interest. She blogs at Twisting Vines about growing things, making things, and creating things, and is passionate about attachment parenting, full-term breastfeeding, EC and cloth nappies, babywearing, unconditional parenting, and respectful gentle parenting practices generally.

Kelly, Author of Becoming Crunchy

Kelly is mom to a beautiful toddler daughter and writes about the changes her family is making to live more healthfully and sustainably as inspired by their little girl. She didn’t know anything about natural parenting except that it was what seemed totally natural when she became a mom, and has made her into the babywearing, co-sleeping hippie mama she’s always been on the inside. She is a book-a-holic and video game lover currently juggling it all with a full-time job as an executive assistant. She’s lived in the US, Mexico and now Canada and would love to travel more with her husband and family. Her dream is to have more kids and live out in the country some day.

Kimberley Yvette Price, Author of The Single Crunch

Kimberley Yvette Price is a single mom to two girls, ages nine and three. They unschool and can most often be found laughing or reading or sleeping on a subway train. Kimberley is a freelance writer and owner of the blog, The Single Crunch. She is passionate about her children, all children, the written word, and various foods.

Kristin Waitt Hutchinson, Author of Intrepid Murmurings

Kristin is an artist, former kindergarten teacher, and stay-at-home mama to toddler twins, Elsie and Delia, and big sister Emma. She writes at Intrepid Murmurings about her attempts to embrace motherhood, nurture creativity and stay sane while juggling three spirited girls under 5. She is particularly interested in navigating the difficulties and challenges (and joys!) of natural parenting and attachment parenting with multiples – including cloth diapering, babywearing, breastfeeding, sleep, and gentle/positive discipline. She has been featured on CodeName: Mama, NursingFreedom.org, and Multiples and More.

Dr. Laura Markham, Author of Aha! Parenting
Dr. Laura Markham trained as a Clinical Psychologist at Columbia University, but she’s also a mom, so she understands kids — and parents! Her book, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting, gives parents the step-by-step tools to regulate their own emotions and raise self-disciplined, connected, happy children. Dr. Laura’s free weekly and daily emails reach over 25,000 subscriber, and are available at AhaParenting.com, the source of Aha! moments for parents. She is the mother of a 17 year old and a 21 year old.

Laura, Author of WaldenMommy: Life Behind the Red Front Door

Laura is most often found driving her herd of four small children around mid-western suburbia or tackling Mt. NeverEndingLaundry. Online, she blogs at WaldenMommy: Life Behind the Red Front Door about her life with The Herd, her Engineer Husband and their pesky dog; her faith; and dealing with post-partum PTSD following the premature birth of her third child. A natural birthing, breastfeeding, baby-wearing, semi-co-sleeping, healthy eating, green living hippie who likes shopping and shoes, she doesn’t claim to be a perfect mother . . . but is the perfect mother for her children.

Laura, Author of Pug in the Kitchen
Laura is a stay at home mama to two spunky little ones. She’s learning day by day with her family as they strive to live as naturally as possible. She’s also cooking from scratch, hanging cloth diapers on the line (in full view of the neighborhood!), growing and preserving their food, breastfeeding, homebirthing, and spending lots of time in the great outdoors. Laura loves to learn and her family provides more than enough for her to draw from! She shares what she learns at Pug in the Kitchen.

Luschka van Onselen, Author of Diary of a First Child

Luschka is a project manager turned WAHM. She suffered Hyperemesis Gravidarum during her pregnancy, which was medically mismanaged, causing her to turn to the internet for help. There she discovered home birthing, and with it a whole new world she’d never heard of before: Attachment Parenting. After her successful home water birth, Luschka chose not to return to work – a surprise to everyone, but mostly herself – and instead focuses on her daughter. She blogs at Diary of a First Child where she examines, shares, and analyzes every new phase in the journey of motherhood. Luschka is passionate about pregnancy, homebirth, breastfeeding, baby wearing, baby led weaning, wooden toys, and natural healing – and she loves knowing that each new phase her daughter goes into offers her a new wealth of learning.

Lyndsay Kirkham, Author of ourfeminist{play}school

Lyndsay is a writer and full-time mama to a 3 year old son, who was born while she was living in Belgium as an expat.. She is passionate about feminism, natural birth, play-based learning, baby-wearing, Canadian Literature, gentle-parenting, healthy eating, animal rights and breast-feeding education. Lyndsay has given up her two careers of English professor and early education teacher to homeschool her son. When not writing her blog ourfeminist{play}school, playing with her son, or editing her recent collections of poetry, she is hanging out in her West Toronto community with her physics-loving-cello-playing geek of a British husband.

Mandy O’Brien, Author of Living Peacefully with Children

Mandy is married to her best friend and is a stay-at-home-mom to their four wonderful children. She holds multiple degrees in the sciences and music and is a self-proclaimed research fanatic. Her love of learning plays a large role in her unschooling journey with her family and her volunteer involvement with various homeschooling and parenting groups. You can find her at Living Peacefully with Children, where she writes about natural parenting topics such as unassisted birth, babywearing, breastfeeding (including child-led weaning), genital integrity, unschooling, bed-sharing, and gentle parenting/consensual living, along with some of her other musings about her journey towards simple living, her artistic leanings, and thoughts on some of the many books she reads.

Megan Kimmelshue, Author of The Boho Mama

Megan lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her husband and their toddler twin daughters, Ruthie and Afton, and was first introduced to attachment parenting after buying Dr. Sears’ Baby Book when newly pregnant. She wanted to know more, and more she found! She is continually inspired by the wonderful and wise community of gentle parents found on the internet. You can find her at The Boho Mama, writing about the joys and challenges of motherhood, extended breastfeeding, daily adventures (usually food or coffee related), and the logistics of gently raising two little souls who happen to look a lot alike.

Melissa Kemendo, Author of Vibrant Wanderings

Melissa has perfected the art of working from home without being gainfully employed. She is mom to two vibrant, curious children, with whom she and her husband live and adventure in the Washington, DC area. When she’s not baking, pushing swings, and attempting yet again to summit laundry mountain, she’s working on the Montessori community program for which she acts as teacher, to her own daughter and a handful of other children. She can also often be found writing about something Montessori-related, or just motherhood in general, on her blog, Vibrant Wanderings.

Moorea Malatt, Author of Mamalady: Adventures in Lesbian Parenting

Moorea Malatt is a mom and Parent Coach currently focusing on early potty, gentle discipline and gentle sleep learning in workshops and private phone consults as well as trying to change the world through blog articles on gentle and effective parenting. Moorea also wrote the album of songs called “Whip It Out: Songs for Breastfeeding.” She and owns and directs Genius: A Baby Academy in Seattle, offering fun classes and support for new families. Moorea blogs over at MamaLady Parenting.

Rachael, Author of The Variegated Life

Rachael is the work-at-home mother of a vivacious two-year-old boy. As a freelancer, she edits and writes educational materials for K–12 students and teaches online creative writing classes through The Writers Studio. She is also a poet who was foolish enough to have married an artist. Though Rachael never planned to do anything other than attachment parenting, her pre-motherhood self probably would be surprised to see her happily nursing a toddler — and in a family bed! She is grateful to have found an online community of others doing much the same. Rachael writes about making her way toward work-life balance in a family of artists at The Variegated Life.

Sheryl Jesin, Author of Little Snowflakes

Sheryl is the proud mom of two boys (ages 3 and 1 month) and is passionate about helping nursing moms through her work as a La Leche League leader. She also happens to work full time as a lawyer (although she is currently enjoying a wonderful, year long maternity leave). Whenever she has a chance, she writes for her blog, Little Snowflakes, where she explores various topics from an attachment and natural parenting perspective. In her free time, she loves going for long walks, practicing yoga and crocheting.

NPN Social Media and Networking Managers

Facebook: Angela, Author of Earth Mamas World

Angela is an attachment parenting, gentle disciplining mama attempting to live a natural life. She has one son, two daughters, and two step daughters. You can find her online at Earth Mamas World where she writes about her homeschooling/unschooling adventures, sensory play, chemical free alternatives to daily living, homeopathic remedies, parenting naturally, sharing recipes, and so much more!

Facebook: Courtney, Certified Health Coach and Author of Thrive: Natural Family Living

Courtney is a stay at home mom and Dr. Sears Certified Health Coach. She practices and advocates attachment parenting, co-sleeping, breastfeeding, real/whole food eating and natural living. She believes that to thrive is to have overall wellness . . . emotionally, physically and mentally. She shares insights to these topics in her blog, Thrive: Natural Family Living, and on her Facebook
page. She loves sharing time with her husband and son, learning to garden and grow her own food, and helping the world become enlightened one person at a time.

Facebook: Emily Bartnikowski, Author of Embrita Blogging (see bio under Authors)

Twitter: Darcel, Author of The Mahogany Way

Darcel is Mama to three. She has a passion for and writes about Motherhood, Pregnancy, Birth, Maternal Health, Infant Mortality, Postpartum Depression, Breastfeeding, Unschooling, and Mindful Parenting with a focus on Mahogany Mama’s and their Children.
Visit her blog at TheMahoganyWay.com.

Twitter: Erica Keil, Author of ChildOrganics

Erica worked in the educational system as a sign language interpreter before becoming a mother. After the birth of her first child she started her business, ChildOrganics, with the support of her husband. They were very interested in attachment parenting, passionate about cloth diapering, natural childbirth and believe strongly in making conscious choices for their family. Their second pregnancy and birth were very different than the natural, peaceful pregnancy they had with their first. Their sweet baby girl was born with Walker Warburg Syndrome characterized by severe hydrocephalus, Muscular Dystrophy, and many other abnormalities. Their daughter died after a short 16 months of life in 2007. Their family was later blessed with a beautiful home birth of a healthy baby boy. Now Erica spends most of her days homeschooling her oldest and chasing after her spunky three year old. She is an advocate of children with special needs and very passionate about her family. She enjoys blogging about natural parenting topics and their family adventures.

Facebook: Jennifer, Author of True Confessions of a Real Mommy

Jennifer is an HBAC-ing, geek-loving foodie, with aspirations of athleticism. Mom to two boys 23 months apart, Jennifer is a strong advocate of natural parenting and treating children with respect and kindness. Between Zumba and training for the Warrior Dash, being a connected parent and wife and the sort of friend others can always count on for a drink when needed, Jennifer co-authors one blog with her oldest boy, Little View of a Big World and writes her own, True Confessions of a Real Mommy.

Facebook: Joella, Author of Fine and Fair

Joella is a full-time wife and mother and a part-time substance abuse counselor. In her spare time (ha!) she blogs at Fine and Fair, a blog written to and for her children about the ups and downs along the journey of raising them as responsible citizens of the world with the values of compassion toward all living things, environmental responsibility, conservation, and celebrating diversity in all of its forms. Joella is passionate about the principles of attachment parenting, breastfeeding, feminism, and vegetarianism. She enjoys gardening, hiking, playing guitar, and aims to discover joy and beauty in each new day.

Twitter: Lyndsay Kirkham, Author of ourfeminist{play}school (See bio under Authors)

Twitter: Mb (See bio under Sponsorship Team)

Pinterest and Flickr Manager: Shannon, Author of Pineapples & Artichokes

Shannon is former nanny and a current stay at home, crafty, geeky mom to two very energetic kids. She writes about sewing, radical homemaking, and playful parenting at Pineapples & Artichokes, along with featuring her photography. She is passionate about breastfeeding, compassionate parenting, and green living.

Stefanie, Flickr Manager and Author of very, very fine

Stefanie is a Jewish Southern California transplant living in the Pacific Northwest with her partner, son and daughter, three cats and three chickens. A fervent feminist and vegetarian, she is passionate about natural birth, breastfeeding, body autonomy and attachment parenting. In her spare time, she sews, plays the autoharp, gardens and writes at very, very fine.

StumbleUpon: Vidya Sury, Author of Going-A-Musing

Believes everything is possible. Dotes on her 14-year old son, Vidur, and thinks the sun shines when he smiles. Adores family and friends and enjoys the work from home lifestyle. Vidya believes in two phases in life. Before Vidur: Wore four inch heels, changed formal clothes four times a day, and traveled most of the month in her corporate job. After Vidur: she enjoys being full-time Mommy and relishes the work from home lifestyle, dressing casually and cooking.
She is working towards funding an orphanage and hopes to present her first book to the world, “The Complete Health Guide for Women,” by the end of this year.

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